Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-08-20
PICTURESQUE GAINESVILLE.
About Finished and Ready for
Subscription.
A Complete History of the City
from it's Earliest Settlement
to the Present Time.
Embellished with Over Two Hundred
Portraits of Her Leading Citizens
from the Earliest Times Down
to the Present Day.


for the past two years, in the compi-
lation of such facts, occurrences, anec-
dotes, sketches, etc., as go to make
up complete history of GAINESVILLE,
and the result of his labors will be
work of 800 or 800 pages under the
title of Picturesque GAINESVILLE.
In the performance of this task, no
expense has been spared to obtain
facts and make the work reliable, and
worthy, not only of the present gen
Grafton, but of the noble sires and
matrons who have passed away. A
great many of the facts have been
taken from the files of the Chronicle
and Jeffersonian, dating back as far
as 1894. The work is now nearly
finished, bringing the history up to
the present generation. Many of the
best writers in the city have been
engaged in preparing matter for the
pages of the book, and this circum-
stance, it is hoped, will add the in
terest Of variety to the style Of the
editorial work. 1t carries the reader
back to the days of his childhood,
when, gathered around the fireside
on long winter night, he listened
to the pleasant stories of father and
mother relating incidents of olden
times. 1t begins with narratives Of
events which happened nearly one
hundred years ago, Of Moses Renfro,
the first white man who ever set foot
on GAINESVILLE soil, of VIM. Mont
gomery and George Bell, who built
the first houses ever erected in the
junction of the Cumberland and Red
Rivers, whose families filled the first
graves in the City Cemetery; of John
Montgomery, who laid off the town
of GAINESVILLE, and after whom the
county was named; of Colonel Sewer
and many early settlers, and their
trials and troubles with the Indians /;
the continued state of warfare with
the red men of the forest for years,
resulting sometimes in the wholesale
murder of women and children, and
, the difficulties encountered by the
hardy pioneers of the country; early
; flat-boating and broad-horn building;
steamboating, and the history of the
river trade; city and county organi-
zations; the old styles and ancient
customs of the people; showing up,
in various anecdotes and reminis-
cences, a complete history of the
GAINESVILLE bar, from the establish
ment of the first court to the present
generation, with biographical and
illustrated sketches of all the lawyers,
and interesting annals of courts and
court houses; militia muster days and
free figh,s; the beginning and subse
quent complete history of tobacco
, planting and of the tobacco market
) stemmeries, warehouses, and the men
connected with them; a complete his
) tory of the schools from the opening
, of the GAINESVILLE Male Academy by
; the Rev. Consider Parish in 1887
: tracing its growth and success to the
establishment of the Southwestern
' Presbyterian University, also the Fe.
5 male Academy from its organization
I in the old Masonic Hall; of the public
; schools and other educational enter
prises; of the different churches anG
pastors. The Tennessee Orphan Asy
lum, Greenwood Cemetery, and al
other similar enterprises come in fol
a full share of attention. 1t also EN-
braces thrilling account of the las
3 days of the college under Col. Forbes
administration, and the boys who
volunteered to fight for the "bonny
blue flag" with many other interest
ing and exciting events and particu
: lars that cannot well be enumerated
in prospectus. The history of bank
:, and banking in GAINESVILLE is also wei
:, given from the first instance of a pub
lie officer carrying surplus funds il
his saddle-bags. and lending it out a
> public auction on County Court days
to the present date when our excellen
banks, banking system and officer
will compare favorably with those O
any city in the west. An account i
G also given of the laying off of the city
s. wharves and street Improvements
l. public buildings, private residences
h railroads, trade and commerce, etc.
n the early history, growth and pros
:. perity of trade to the present day
l. and sketches of the business men an,
d their families who were connecte,
= with it. The work is also mirror G
G. faces, complete picture gallery c
Of GAINESVILLE, containing over one hun
p. dred engravings of the grand old me-
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